July 1-15 @ The Pacific Film Archive

July

07Wednesday
Akira Kurosawa
7:00Sanshiro Sugata I and II
Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1943). A young man learns dedication and discipline in life—and judo—in Kurosawa’s debut film, “a must for Kurosawa admirers.” (L.A. Times). In the sequel, he battles foreign thugs and two Noh-esque Japanese brothers. (163 mins)

08Thursday
Francesco Rosi
7:00Three Brothers
Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1981). Three brothers—a lawyer, a radical, and an idealist—return to the South for their mother’s funeral in Rosi’s elegiac examination of ‘70s Italy. “A great film . . . extraordinarily beautiful.”—David Denby (113 mins)

09Friday
Francesco Rosi
7:00The Challenge
Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1958). A smalltime smuggler hopes to expand his business—but doesn’t bargain on the Mafia—in Rosi’s first feature, a striking example of late neorealism. (95 mins)

8:55The Swindlers
Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1959). Alberto Sordi is an Italian swindler in Germany who shows a fellow countryman how to “participate” in the postwar German Economic Miracle. A fascinating glimpse into Europe’s postwar urban culture, shot in the strip clubs, jazz bars, and rundown docks of Hamburg and Hannover. (107 mins)

10Saturday
A Theater Near You
6:30Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, 1990)
"Kiarostami, in semi-documentary mode, re-creates the true story of an unemployed dreamer—an ardent cinephile—who passes himself off as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a fraudulent act that becomes both an homage and a fresh work of art."—New Yorker (100 mins)

Akira Kurosawa
8:30Stray Dog
Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1949). Toshiro Mifune is a driven detective in Kurosawa’s bravura Tokyo noir. “A bona fide masterpiece.”—Time Out (122 mins)

11Sunday
A Theater Near You
5:00Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, 1990)
"Kiarostami, in semi-documentary mode, re-creates the true story of an unemployed dreamer—an ardent cinephile—who passes himself off as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a fraudulent act that becomes both an homage and a fresh work of art."—New Yorker (100 mins)

Francesco Rosi
7:00The Mattei Affair
Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1972). The life and suspicious death of Italy’s legendary leftist oil czar Enrico Mattei (“Mao was right”) forms the basis of this Citizen Kane for the Enron set, a crackling political thriller about oil, power, and capitalism. Winner, Cannes Palme d’Or. (118 mins)

14Wednesday
Akira Kurosawa
7:00The Most Beautiful
Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1944). A semi-documentary drama of life among women factory workers (“not a major work, but the one dearest to me,” said Kurosawa). With the lively samurai adventure The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, “a small triumph of inventiveness and resourcefulness.”—TCM (144 mins)

15Thursday
A Theater Near You
7:00Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper (U.S., 1969). Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda hit the road on their wheels of steel, looking for drugs and encountering rednecks, Phil Spector, and Jack Nicholson along the way. An American counterculture classic, in a new, restored print. (94 mins)
Repeated July 18

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